What Ails The Right Isn't (Just) Racism

By artappraiser on Sat, 12/19/2020 - 5:41pm |

Please, folks, if you think you're going to reduce racism by emphasizing or amplifying racial difference as a primary attribute of others, familiarize yourself with the way people with authoritarian personality types react to different framings https://t.co/p3ZGjr46a4
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) December 18, 2020

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/what-if-left-was-right-race/595777/

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This. This. This.

My goodness, as said by a far greater man than I, there was no ambiguity in judging one not on the color of their skin but the content of their character. That isn't a one-way street. Nor are the ills that come with such judgment.
— Rant Ninja (@RantNinja) December 18, 2020

This goes a long way toward explaining, in the Canadian context, the similarity in words and occasional deeds between anti-papism in 19th century Canada and Jim Crowism in the US south.
— Vernon Good (@GoodVerngood) December 18, 2020

All bigotry is some variation of xenophobia
— Arthur Otke Keim (@ArthurOtkeKeim) December 19, 2020

This is an absolutely fantastic piece on a vexing subject. https://t.co/GdLIcke14U
— Michael J. Hicks (@HicksCBER) December 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/19/2020 - 5:50pm

My opening comment on @ReliableSources today: The best word for what is happening in America right now is radicalization. pic.twitter.com/lJ6SfE2VYM
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/20/2020 - 6:59pm

What Ails The Right Isn't (Just) Racism

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